Lady Geese drop LTC opener

Wednesday

Nov 28, 2012 at 9:22 PMNov 28, 2012 at 9:25 PM

Galva, Stark County open with conference wins

Mike Landis

West Central 62, Wethersfield 57The Lady Heat opened the Lincoln Trail Conference schedule by picking up a road win at Wethersfield Wednesday night.West Central led throughout the opening quar- ter, but a scoring spree by Sarah Hansen put theGirls HS BasketballLady Geese on top early in the second frame.Hansen knocked down a 3- pointer at the first-quarter buzzer to pull Wethersfield within 16-14, then followed with the seven straight points to start the secondquarter to put the Lady Geese on top 21-16. Trailing 23-18, West Central answered with a12-2 run to go back in front 30-25. The Heat pushed the lead to 37-31 at the half,and outscored the Lady Geese 11-7 in the third frame to make it 48-38 going into the final eight minutes.Sarah Hansen led Wethersfield with 20 points.The loss drops the Lady Geese to 5-3 overall and 0-1 in conference.Wethersfield won the fresh-soph opener 52-39.

Galva 54, Mercer County 40Alex Strom scored 18 points to lead Galva to the conference-opening win over the Golden Eagles Wednesday night.The Lady Wildcats led 22-19 at the half, and extended the margin to 42-31 after three quarters.Katelyn Klein added nine points for Galva, which improves to 2-2 overall and 1-0 in the LTC.

Also in the LTC Wednesday...Stark County opened the conference slate with a 53-36 win over United. Stark County also won the fresh-soph opener 35-17. ... Emma Johnson scored 14 points to lead ROWVA over West Prairie 68-35. ... Results from the Annawan at Princeville game were unavailable at press time Wednesday night.